Best Major for Business School

I am interested in the field of management and for this I have decided to join business schools. Can you please tell me which is best major to pursue in business schools and tell me what topics I will study also provide me lists of top schools for business majors?

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The best business major is dependent on the student and what field you would like to go into upon graduation.

Business programs cover various aspects of business and prepare you for entry-level jobs or graduate school.

Some common business majors include the following:

Accounting
Finance
Management information systems
Marketing

1 Accounting:

Major Coursework

In addition to core business administration courses, classes in an accounting degree program may include the following:

Cost accounting
Income taxes
Auditing
Business ethics
Accounting for public organizations
Financial and managerial accounting
Accounting software systems

2 Finance

Major Coursework

Classes in a finance degree program may include the following:

Market policy
Accounting
Markets and mediation
Real estate
Portfolio theory
Internal finance
Cost accounting

3 Management Information Systems

Major Coursework

Classes in this degree program may include:

Web technologies
Data management
Systems analysis
Business intelligence
Programming
Accounting information systems

4 Marketing

Major Coursework

Classes in a marketing program include:

Marketing research
Management
Entrepreneurship
Sales
Business-to-business marketing

Top schools for business majors:

University of California - Berkeley
Georgetown University - Washington D.C.
Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU)
Santa Clara University
University of Pennsylvania
Washington University in St. Louis
Babson College
New York University (NYU)
University of Notre Dame
Loyola University - Baltimore, MD